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Social change
About: Social change is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 61197 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1797013 citations.
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01 Dec 1962
TL;DR: Rosenberg's "The Cholera Years" as mentioned in this paper provides a masterful analysis of the moral and social interest attached to epidemic disease, providing generally applicable insights into how the connections between social change, changes in knowledge and changes in technical practice may be conceived.
Abstract: Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narrative is as absorbing for general audiences as it is for the medical historian. In a new Afterword, Rosenberg discusses changes in historical method and concerns since the original publication of "The Cholera Years." "A major work of interpretation of medical and social thought . . . this volume is also to be commended for its skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease."-I.B. Cohen, "New York Times" ""The Cholera Years" is a masterful analysis of the moral and social interest attached to epidemic disease, providing generally applicable insights into how the connections between social change, changes in knowledge and changes in technical practice may be conceived."-Steven Shapin, "Times Literary Supplement" "In a way that is all too rarely done, Rosenberg has skillfully interwoven medical, social, and intellectual history to show how medicine and society interacted and changed during the 19th century. The history of medicine here takes its rightful place in the tapestry of human history."-John B. Blake, "Science"
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03 Jun 2004
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the role of young people in social change and social division in the context of a networked age, focusing on gender, race, and race relations.
Abstract: Part 1: Theorising Youth 1. Young people and social change 2. Class inequality and community resources 3. Constructing a public presence Part 2: Social Divisions 4. Gender and Sexuality 5. Migrations and Ethnicities 6. Indigenous youth and colonisation 7. Rural geographies Part 3: Social Institutions 8. Youth Policy 9. Family: relating and belonging 10. Schooling Youth 11. Working the multiple economies Part 4: Social Identities 12. Youth Identities and culture 13. Youth in a networked age 14. Well-being and Risk Part 5: Social Issues 15. Violence and Crime 16. Climate Change17. Complex Lives
278 citations
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, a humanoid robot, named Kismet, was designed to engage humans in expressive social interaction with a human caregiver, reminiscent of parent-infant exchanges.
Abstract: : Sociable humanoid robots are natural and intuitive for people to communicate with and to teach. The author presents recent advances in building an autonomous humanoid robot, named "Kismet," that can engage humans in expressive social interaction. She outlines a set of design issues and a framework that she has found to be of particular importance for sociable robots. Having a human-in-the-loop places significant social constraints on how the robot aesthetically appears, how its sensors are configured, its quality of movement, and its behavior. Inspired by infant social development, psychology, ethology, and evolutionary perspectives, this work integrates theories and concepts from these diverse viewpoints to enable Kismet to enter into natural and intuitive social interaction with a human caregiver, reminiscent of parent-infant exchanges. Kismet perceives a variety of natural social cues from visual and auditory channels, and delivers social signals to people through gaze direction, facial expressions, body posture, and vocalizations. The author presents the implementation of Kismet's social competencies and evaluates each with respect to the following: (1) the ability of naive subjects to read and interpret the robot's social cues; (2) the robot's ability to perceive and appropriately respond to naturally offered social cues; (3) the robot's ability to elicit interaction scenarios that afford rich learning potential; and (4) how this produces a rich, flexible, dynamic interaction that is physical, affective, and social. Numerous studies with naive human subjects are described that provide the data upon which the author bases her evaluations.
278 citations
TL;DR: Both changes in primary teacher and changes in teacher-child relationships were associated with changes in children's social competence with peers.
278 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined changes over a 20-year period in two type of actors' homophily over two types of roles, and found that similar actors tend to be connected at a higher rate than dissimilar actors.
Abstract: Homophily, the tendency for similar actors to be connected at a higher rate than dissimilar actors, is a pervasive social fact. In this article, we examine changes over a 20-year period in two type...
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